2nd Edition. –Taylor & Francis Group, LLC, 2014. – 696 p. – ISBN: 1466510536. Written by one of the original MARSSIM authors, Decommissioning Health Physics: A Handbook for MARSSIM Users, Second Edition is the only book to incorporate all of the requisite technical aspects of planning and executing radiological surveys in support of decommissioning. Extensively revised and...
Woodhead Publishing Limited, 2012. 368 p. — ISBN: 978-0-85709-398-1, ISBN: 978-0-85709-399-8. This book provides an overview of probablistic methods for calculating the strength and operating life of equipment and pipelines of nuclear power plants (NPPs), including using the criteria of resistance to full or partial destruction with the formation of breaks, leaks or defects in...
Springer Tokyo Heidelberg New York Dordrecht London, 2015 p. XII, 560 p. 86 illus., 55 illus. in color. — ISBN: 978-4-431-55159-1, ISBN: 978-4-431-55160-7 (eBook). Provides an accurate conditions of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant disaster Discusses the radiation contamination of the surrounding environment of the reactor units for the first time Written by leading...
Cambridge: University Printing House, 2015. — 538 p. Despite the nuclear accident at the Fukushima Daiichi plant in Japan, a growing number of countries are interested in expanding or introducing nuclear energy. However, nuclear energy production and nuclear waste disposal give rise to pressing ethical questions that society needs to face. This book takes up this challenge with...
DOE-HDBK-1169-2003 - U.S. Department of Energy: Washington, D.C. 20585, November 2003. - 403 p. Along with U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission documents and consensus standards such as the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Code On Nuclear Air and Gas Treatment (ASME AG-1), this handbook addresses systems and equipment used in nuclear facilities to capture and...
NUREG-1829 Main report Prepared by: R. Tregoning (NRC), L. Abramson (NRC) P. Scott (Battelle-Columbus) A. Csontos, NRC Project Manager 2008 Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, DC 20555-0001 The NRC is establishing a risk-informed revision of the design-basis pipe break size requirements in 10 CFR 50.46, Appendix K to Part 50, and...
NUREG-1829 Appendices A through M Prepared by: R. Tregoning (NRC), L. Abramson (NRC) P. Scott (Battelle-Columbus) A. Csontos, NRC Project Manager 2008 Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, DC 20555-0001 The NRC is establishing a risk-informed revision of the design-basis pipe break size requirements in 10 CFR 50.46, Appendix K to...
Springer, 2016. — 122 p. The book provides a proper analysis of causes and consequences of severe nuclear accidents at Three Mile Island NPP (USA, 1979), Chernobyl NPP (USSR, 1986) and Fukushima Daiichi NPP (Japan, 2011). How Do Nuclear Reactors Work? Nuclear Basics. Why Pressurized Water? The Origins of the PWR. Three Mile Island. The TMI Accident. Russian Reactor Design...
University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, 1970, 273 p., ISBN: 0816605815 This book is based upon a symposium, "Nuclear Power and the Public," which was held at the University of Minnesota on October 10 and 11, 1969. The meeting was a timely one, judging from the nationwide attention it attracted and the continuing and lively public interest in the many issues raised and...
Royal Society of Chemistry, 2011. 247 p. — ISBN: 978-1-84973-194-2, ISSN: 1350-7583 — (Issues in Environmental Science and Technology. Vol. 32). The environmental implications of generating electric power from nuclear fission have been a matter of concern since the construction of the earliest nuclear reactors and power stations in the 1950s. After two or more decades of...
Woodhead Publishing, Sawston, Cambridge, 2015, 201 p., ISBN: 978-0-08-100118-9, 978-0-08-100132-5 Woodhead Publishing Series in Energy On March 11, 2011, The Great East Japan Earthquake occurred, and the tsunami waves it induced triggered an unprecedented accident at the Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO)-owned Fukushima-1 (Daiichi) Nuclear Power Plant (NPP). Three and a half...
Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2014. — XII, 202 p. — ISBN: 978-1-4094-5491-5 (hbk); ISBN: 978-1-4094-5492-2 (ebk – PDF); ISBN: 978-1-4724-0730-6 (ebk – EPUB). The catalyst for this study was the Fukushima-Daiichi major nuclear accident of 11 March 2011. In this event, a severe earthquake and15 metre tsunami caused serious damage and equipment failures at Japan's Fukushima 1...
NUREG/CR-6928 INL/EXT-06-11119 Idaho National Laboratory U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research Washington, DC 20555-0001 Prepared by: S.A. Eide, T.E. Wierman, C.D. Gentillon, D.M. Rasmuson, C.L. Atwood NRC Job Code Y6546 2007 This report characterizes current industry-average performance for components and initiating events at U.S. commercial...
Tokyo; Heidelberg; New York; Dordrecht; London: Springer, 2015. — XVI, 231 p. — ISBN: 978-4-431-55542-1; ISBN: 978-4-431-55543-8 (eBook). Written by an expert in the field, this book is perfect for those who would like to know what happened at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. Part 1 of the book studies how core melts occurred in Fukushima Daiichi units 1, 2, and 3,...
Oxford, UK: Gulf Professional Publishing, an imprint of Butterworth-Heinemann. ISBN: 0-7506-4883-X., 2001, 357 p. Acknowledgements Two simple incidents Protective system failure Poor procedures and poor management A gas leak and explosion – The hazards of insularity A liquid leak and fire and the hazards of amateurism A tank explosion – The hazards of optional extras Another...
Salem, Massachusetts, 2014. XXX, 175 p. — ISBN: 978-1-118-77342-0. The Fukushima nuclear incident made people ponder and question nuclear safety again, resulting in decisions by certain countries to phase out nuclear power completely. Is this the right decision? Are there better ways to deal with this important issue of the 21th century? The book analyses the pros and cons of a...
Springer International Publishing, 2017. — 364 p. There are currently 99 commercial reactors, operating at 61 nuclear power plant sites in the USA. Nuclear power plants (NPPs) are associated with potential core meltdown accidents, which could ultimately lead to catastrophic events. The three main nuclear disasters with the most significant historic and catastrophic impacts are...
London, New York: Pegasus Books, 2014. — 348 p. A gripping narrative of nuclear mishaps and meltdowns around the globe, all of which have proven pivotal to the advancement of nuclear science. From the moment radiation was discovered in the late nineteenth century, nuclear science has had a rich history of innovative scientific exploration and discovery, coupled with mistakes,...
Marshall Cavendish, 2010. — 112 p. Provides comprehensive information on the nuclear disaster at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant and the differing perspectives accompanying it.
Washington, DC: National Research Council (NRC), National Academies Press, 2014. — 393 p. The purpose of this independent review is to provide candid and critical comments that will assist the National Research Council in making this published report as sound as possible and will ensure that this report meets institutional standards for objectivity, evidence, and responsiveness...
Elsevier, 2006, 447 p. - ISBN13: 978-0-7506-6723-4. Inventory and localization of radioactive products in the plant. Safety systems and their functions. The classification of accidents and a discussion of some examples. Severe accidents. The dispersion of radioactivity releases. Health consequences of releases. The general approach to the safety of the plant-site complex....
2nd Edition. — Butterworth-Heinemann, 2020. — 565 p. — ISBN: 978-0-12-818326-7. The second edition of this book provides the most up to date methods and data needed to evaluate the safety of nuclear facilities and related processes using risk-informed safety analysis, and provides readers with new techniques to assess the consequences of radioactive releases. Gianni Petrangeli...
Elsevier, 2013, - 388 p. Текст розпізнаний, що дає можливість пошуку фрагментів тексту по ключовим словам. Fukushima Accident presents up-to-date information on radioactivity released to the atmosphere and the ocean after the accident on the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant, on the distribution of radionuclides in the world atmosphere and oceans, and their impact on the...
The English Press, Delhi, 2011, 107 p., ISBN: 9789381157558 Nuclear power plants are a large part of our power grid here in the United States. Nuclear power is an excellent resource, but like every form of energy, environmental impacts must be considered. Construction The construction of nuclear power plants can cause pollution. Deforestation and CO2 from construction machines...
InTech, Rijeka, Croatia, 2011, 368 p., ISBN: 978-953-307-507-5 Energy demands due to economic growth and increasing population must be satisfied in a sustainable manner assuring inherent safety, efficiency and no or minimized environmental impact. New energy sources and systems must be inherently safe and environmentally benign. These considerations are among the reasons that...
Taylor & Francis Publ. , London, New York, 2001, 355 p. - ISBN: 0-415-24649-0 The present volume is the result of ICNPO III, which took place in Mihama, Japan, September 8-10, 1999. It addresses the various aspects of a new emergent concept in its relevance to the safety and reliability of nuclear installations: safety culture. Because of their overall strong safety record,...
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